Emerald City is the seventh album by Teena Marie, released on July 22, 1986.

It is a stylistic departure for her, with strong blues and rock influences favored over her established soul/funk style, and is a concept album.

However, "Shangri-La", while it never became a single or charted anywhere, became a staple of Quiet storm programming blocks on adult R&B radio.

Stevie Ray Vaughan composed and performed the guitar solo on "You So Heavy", Bootsy Collins provided vocals on the title album track, and Stanley Clarke played bass on "Sunny Skies".

In his 1991 book Stairway to Hell: The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe, rock critic Chuck Eddy put Emerald City in the ninth spot; it is the lone entry in the book that does not fit traditional categories of heavy metal.